About 800 sharanas practiced the technique and wrote their experiences in terms of Guru (Unmanifest Chaitanya), Linga (Manifest Chaitanya), Jangama (Pure consciousness of Lingatattva in ones prana), Padodaka (intimacy with the knowersource of Lingatattva), and Prasada (becoming lingatattva).

This fact has been attributed to the popularity of the movement.

More than 200 Vachana writers ( Vachanakaras ) have been recorded and more than thirty of whom were women.

What shall I, a poor man, do My legs are pillars, The body the shrine, The head a cupola of gold.

Listen, Koodalasangama Deva, Things standing shall fall, But the moving ever shall stay.

In style, they are epigrammatical, parallelistic and allusive.

They dwell on the vanity of riches, the valuelessness of mere rites or book learning, the uncertainty of life and the spiritual privileges of Shiva Bhakta (worshiper of lord Shiva).

The existing readings of the vachanas are mostly set by the European understanding of the Indian traditions.

The government of Karnataka has published Samagra Vachana Samputa in 15 volumes.

Karnataka University Dharwad has published collections of individual vachana poets.

P.G Halakatti. He moved from door to door and collected and restored many Vachana literatures.

New Delhi: Asian Educational Services,Oxford university press.

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Akkamahadevi Vachanas In Kannada Pdf